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The second round of the Physics Olympiad took place on 17. January 2018. A total of 45 students took the exam in Berne, Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano. 26 Swiss participants, as well as 2 from Liechtenstein, qualified for the final round of the Swiss Physics Olympiad.

Place

Name

Points (Max 70)

1

Julius Vering

40.50

2

Ciril Humbel

36.00

3

Tim Mosimann

34.75

4

Tobias Hächler

32.00

5

Erwan Serandour

31.25

6

Severin Spörri

28.50

7

Keanu Gleixner

27.25

8

Lennart Horn

24.50

9

Bibin Muttappillil

23.50

10

Arthur Jaques

22.50

11

Namu Bae

22.35

12

Jonas Raich

22.25

13

Hiro Josep Farré Kaga

22.25

14

Lucas Dodgson

22.00

15

Jonas Schweiger

21.25

16

Laura Nydegger

21.00

17

Andreas Schneider

21.00

18

Ramon Buchenberger

20.50

19

Matthias Bürgler

19.50

20

Edouard Dufour

19.20

21

Louis Linder

19.00

22

Nicolas Schmid

19.00

23

Marco Rotschi

19.00

24

Jonathan Esche

18.00

25

Eric Ströher

17.75

26

Thoma Leisibach

17.75

Mario Wildhaber

Liechtenstein

Katharina Eigenmann

Liechtenstein

Congratulations to all successful participants. We wish them good luck for the final round which will take place on 24. – 25. March at ‘Neue Kantonsschule’ in Aarau. A good performance at the final round will allow you to represent Switzerland at the European Physics Olympiad 2018 in Moscow or even at the International Physics Olympiad 2018 in Lisbon.

We would also like to thank everyone, who didn’t make it to the final round, for participating. Hopefully, many of them will try again next year.

In the beginning of November 2017, a preparation camp for the second round was held in Vordemwald. 35 students participated in the camp. In addition to the lectures and the exercises, we visited the nuclear power plant in Gösgen. In the evenings, we had various entertaining activities planned.

We would like to thank all participants and teachers for taking part in the competition. The multiple-choice test was taken by 647 students (558 from Switzerland and 89 from Liechtenstein). The number of participants is almost ten times higher than the average of the previous years.

15 points were necessary to qualify for the preparation camp and the second round. 59 participants achieved the necessary 15 points. Additionally, 18 wild cards were handed out. We would like to invite the following people to the preparation camp and to the second round:

Noah Ackermann

Robert Adarraga

Eric Aschari

Namu Bae

Stefan Baumann

Fabian Beck

Michelle Bollier

Benno Bösch

Ramón Buchenberger

Matthias Bürgler

Lucas Dodgson

Gabriele Donati

Luka Dragomirovic

Edouard Dufour

Florian Eisenring

Jonathan Esche

Hiro Josep Farré Kaga

Raphaël Fragnière

Nicolaz Frei

Leonie Gasser

Keanu Gleixner

Michael Ha

Tobias Hächler

Philipp Hänsel

Nathan Hoffman

Fabio Holdener

Lennart Horn

Dominik Hügli

Ciril Humbel

Scott Irvine

Arthur Jaques

Moritz Käch

Ruben Kaufmann

Michael Kitto

Dominik Kleinstück

Etienne Lacroux

Marco Lazic

Simon Leber

Thoma Leisibach

Sebastiaan Leys

Louis Linder

Giuseppe Maggisano

Justus Maleck

Jonas Meier

Tim Mosimann

Bibin Muttappillil

Patrick Nutt

Laura Nydegger

Yunshu Ouyang

Fabian Popp

Jonas Raich

Ruben Rauter

Joel Reichardt

Samuel Renggli

Marco Rotschi

Aja Ruoss

Joshua Ruoss

Alexander Schaller

Gabriela Schenk

Nicolas Schmid

Michael Schmolzer

Andreas Schneider

Jonas Schweiger

Daniel Schwyzer

Erwan Serandour

Maciej Smela

Severin Spörri

Eric Ströher

Kieron Tella

Julius Vering

Joël Vögtlin

Mario Wildhaber

Dana Zimmermann

Raphael Zumbrunn

All participants listed here will receive an invitation with further information by email. If you don't receive an email by 10.10.2017, please contact Sebastian Stengele as soon as possible.

This year the 48th physics olympiad took place in Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

The competition was split into two five hour exams. The experimental part consisted of two experiments. In the first one the students used a laser to examine the index of refraction and the constant of diffusion of a salt solution. The second experiment was about a so-called PDL trap that can make graphite rods levitate. A PDL trap is constructed using two magnets arranged in a certain way. The participants had to measure different properties of the magnets and rods in order to figure out how to use this PDL trap as a seismograph and a tilt sensor.

In the theoretical part the students were given three challenging problems. The subjects included dark matter, the expansion of the Universe and - fitting for Indonesia - tsunamis and earthquakes.